Ply A Novel

Praise for Ply

A page-turning, pleasurably disorienting, and deeply humane vision of a possible future.
Vogue

Offers us a vision of the future both deeply disconcerting and oddly exhilarating...a testament to the surpassing importance of the human voice, artistic fecundity, improvisation, and ingenuity. Boston Globe

With the transportive power of music, found families and trade-based economy, Ply resonates with the founding ideas of Burning Man. What if, despite everything, you could create a community that is wild and anarchic and free? Los Angeles Times

Diaz is juggling an ambitious plot and thorny philosophical questions, yet the novel remains compulsively readable, carried along by intricate worldbuilding and strangely gorgeous evocations of ruin.... By the novel s end you will believe, like our heroine, that the cracks and fissures in every building and street [are] the sign of something wonderful hatching. Oprah Daily

[Ply] is preoccupied with many things at once: what people are made of, what society is made of, what the universe is made of. The New Yorker

Complex, compassionate and very punk, Hernan Diaz s Ply is an extraordinary science fiction novel, an optimistic story set in a very cynical future. BookPage

Bears a strong family resemblance to Diaz s two earlier books. The postmodern technical shenanigans are still there, the extensive engagement with the traditions of multiple literary genres, while smooth-as-silk prose and a compelling plot once again carry us through the metafictional minefield These three novels can productively be read as a historical trilogy narrating the rise and fall of American capitalism. Los Angeles Review of Books

"Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control. Blurbing Ply is like trying to blurb a dream." David Mitchell

"To build a better world, how deeply must we get into the heads of the people around us? A brainy, challenging, and engrossing trek into a battered but unbeaten future." Kirkus Review (STARRED REVIEW)

Diaz brilliantly envisions how love, trust, and loyalty can remain when freedom and justice have collapsed and makes every page exhilarating and meaningful. Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW)
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Praise for Trust

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Intricate, cunning and consistently surprising . . . Diaz has the whole literary past at his fingertips. The New York Times (10 Best Books of the Year)

An elegant, irresistible puzzle. The Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year)

With only his second novel, Diaz has become an ambitious and significant voice. The Guardian (Best Books of the Year)

Wondrous . . . Diaz is brilliant at dissecting literary conventions and transforming them into something new. New York Review of Books